Let me preface this short review by saying I haven't seen "Charade" which is the inspiration behind the remake effort that is "The Truth About Charlie".
I'm that big a fan of either of the 2 main leads, Mark Wahlberg or Thandie Newton, but Jonathan Demme's name as director did get me into the movie theater to check out this film.
I can't decide if Demme choose to go for sprinkling comedic bits all throughout the film because he realized that the main characters aren't all that interesting to begin with. Some of irony in the dialog is funny, but overall, not a very satisfying film in retrospect. For the life of me, I couldn't find Thandie's character, Regina, acting in a plausible fashion after she returns home to find out that her husband, Charlie, has been murdered. From that point, it's a game of who's going to get to whatever Charlie was trying to hide from them. The screenplay tries to be very convoluted, at the expense of the characters, and even suspending my disbelief more than once on plot points put me in into auto-pilot mode, which meant I disengaged in caring about the characters and their plight, and moved into "well, let's just find out 'the truth about Charlie'" mode no matter how silly the characters behave for the rest of the film.
I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C.
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I'm that big a fan of either of the 2 main leads, Mark Wahlberg or Thandie Newton, but Jonathan Demme's name as director did get me into the movie theater to check out this film.
I can't decide if Demme choose to go for sprinkling comedic bits all throughout the film because he realized that the main characters aren't all that interesting to begin with. Some of irony in the dialog is funny, but overall, not a very satisfying film in retrospect. For the life of me, I couldn't find Thandie's character, Regina, acting in a plausible fashion after she returns home to find out that her husband, Charlie, has been murdered. From that point, it's a game of who's going to get to whatever Charlie was trying to hide from them. The screenplay tries to be very convoluted, at the expense of the characters, and even suspending my disbelief more than once on plot points put me in into auto-pilot mode, which meant I disengaged in caring about the characters and their plight, and moved into "well, let's just find out 'the truth about Charlie'" mode no matter how silly the characters behave for the rest of the film.
I give it 2 stars, or a grade of C.
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